In 1,993 responses to a Sex Survey questionnaire, responses consisted of 1,351 males and 642 females. Progressives were over-represented (N=973), while Conservatives were under-represented (N=395).
Nevertheless, Charles Brack at Neuropolitics.org says he can find some meaning in it; namely that Conservatives have retained a distinctive reproductive valence to their sexual behavior, while progressives have substantially undermined fertility in their sex lives, and seem to be adapting a sort of 'sociosexuality'; that is, sex that has lost its reproductive significance, and now performs social functions, such as neutralizing intra-group competition and aggression.
The Secret Sex Lives of Conservatives and Liberals - Charles Brack, Neuropolitics.org
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Gender
|
Political Cohort
|
N
|
Children Wanted
|
Length of Current Relationship (in months)
|
Heterosexuality
|
Number of sex partners
|
|
Female
|
NP
|
52
|
2.5
|
44
|
8.5
|
15.6
|
|
Female
|
VL
|
176
|
1.8
|
89
|
7.2
|
16.0
|
|
Female
|
L
|
199
|
2.0
|
86
|
7.9
|
13.8
|
|
Female
|
M
|
107
|
2.4
|
98
|
8.2
|
11.6
|
|
Female
|
LB
|
51
|
1.8
|
100
|
8.1
|
11.6
|
|
Female
|
C
|
43
|
2.4
|
128
|
9.1
|
8.5
|
|
Female
|
VC
|
14
|
2.5
|
131
|
9.4
|
3.9
|
|
Male
|
NP
|
87
|
1.7
|
100
|
9.1
|
15.8
|
|
Male
|
VL
|
285
|
1.6
|
89
|
8.0
|
16.9
|
|
Male
|
L
|
313
|
1.9
|
97
|
8.3
|
16.1
|
|
Male
|
M
|
171
|
2.2
|
128
|
8.9
|
16.0
|
|
Male
|
LB
|
157
|
2.1
|
104
|
8.6
|
15.2
|
|
Male
|
C
|
222
|
2.7
|
146
|
9.2
|
15.7
|
|
Male
|
VC
|
116
|
3.2
|
150
|
9.5
|
12.9
|
Children wanted, length of relationship, heterosexuality, and number of sex partners, by gender and political affiliation
(NP=Nonpolitical, VL=Very Liberal, L=Liberal, M=Moderate, LB=Libertarian, C=Conservative, VC=Very Conservative)
